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	done and performed by the said Baltimore and Ohio
	Railroad Company are done and performed by said
	company in the manner required by this act, on or
	before the said first day of July in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and the Governor of this
	State, by and with the advice of the Attorney Gen-
	eral thereof, shall so certify, then the said Baltimore
	and Ohio Railroad Company shall not be required	Shall not be
	to account for, or pay, into the treasury of this State	required.
	any portion of the amount by it received before the
	first day of January in the year eighteen hundred
	and seventy-eight, or thereafter, or to be thereafter
	received for the transportation of passengers on its
	railroad between Baltimore and Washington, or any
	part of its railroad between Baltimore and Wash-
	ington, other than by way of dividends on the stock
	of the said State in the Washington Branch Rail-
	road of said company, or other than as is hereinbe-
	fore provided ; and said company shall thenceforth forever he released from its obligation to pay into	Forever be released.
	the Treasury of the State the one-fifth of the whole
	amount, which may have been, or may hereafter be,
	received by said company for the transportation of
	passengers on its Washington Branch Railroad, as
	provided by the eighth section of the act of eigh-
	teen hundred and thirty-two, chapter one hundred
	and seventy-five, and every part thereof; but upon
	the failure of the said Baltimore and Ohio Railroad	Upon the
	Company to comply with each and all the require-	failure.
	ments of this act on, or before, the first day of July,
	eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, then and in such
	event this act, and every matter and thing therein
	contained, shall be utterly null and void, and the	Null and void
	said State of Maryland shall hold and enforce all its
	claims and rights against the said Baltimore and
	Ohio Railroad Company in the same manner, and to	Large an
	as large an extent, as if this act had never been	extent.
	passed.
	SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That upon the accept-	Upon accept-
	ance of this act by the said company, as provided	ance.
	by the sixth section thereof, and the receipt by the
	Treasurer of the money mentioned in the third and
	fourth sections, and of the bonds mentioned in the
	fourth section, all the suits now pending between	All suits.
	the State and the said company in reference to its
	receipts for transportation of passengers on its Wash-